Goods worth lakhs of rupees gutted in a fire broke out in a two-wheeler showroom in Meerapur locality under the Attarsuiya police station on Wednesday night.
Around 10 pm the residents witnessed thick clouds of smoke rising into the sky from the above two-wheeler shop situated near Kamdhenu Sweets. The showroom owner was informed and the fire brigade was called.
Firefighters arrived at the spot and found that the flames were coming up from the basement so they entered it to douse the fire. It took hours for the firefighters to control the flame.
The showroom owner removed vehicles worth lakhs of rupees with the help of residents otherwise the loss could have been almost four fold more.
TWO TTEs CAUGHT: The Vigilance team of Railways caught two Travel Ticket Examiners (TTE) with 11 bottles of liquor and `1.28 lakh in cash. They were caught in the AC coach of Prayagraj Express train. The Vigilance team had information regarding the ‘misdeeds’ of the above two TTEs.
When Prayagraj Express arrived on platform No 1, the two TTEs were nabbed. The team 11 bottles of foreign liquor and `1.28 lakh in cash recovered from their possession. It is reported that they had been acting as courier to smuggle liquor from Delhi to Prayagraj. They had also been involved in selling AC reservation on higher price.
The North Central Railway (NCR) PRO confirmed that the vigilance team took the above TTEs with them for interrogation. Both of them are from Prayagraj division of NCR.
Some liquor bottles had been found in Prayagraj Express a couple of days ago, and it had sent the vigilance team on alert mode.